Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. He was a political refugee living in the Netherlands between 1998 and 2011. Sami is the author of the first Tunisian e-book (in French) Borj Erroumi XL.

Occupy Sandy gained the attention denied to Occupy Our Homes because it
replaced militant Occupy! with "do-it-yourself" Occupy. Feel-good mutual
aid displaced attention from the underlying contradiction between
public housing and private utilities onto the quick fix of digital
media. Occupy Our Homes, on the other hand, confronts the system with
its failures ? predatory lending, homelessness, and empty bank-owned
houses. The problems it addresses can't be solved by rolling up our
sleeves and getting involved; they require political solutions.